MyVote1 National Election Report: Voice of the Electorate 2006 (PDF)
A new report on the 2006 election from the University of Pennsylvania may prove useful as states prepare for this November’s elections, as well as next year’s presidential primaries. The highlights of the analysis, which relies on data from a national hotline, include a dramatic increase in the number of voting machine complaints since 2004 and that difficulties with registration remain a major issue for voters.

Read the report here (PDF).
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What Do Local Election Officials Think about Election Reform?: Results of a Survey (PDF) | JUNE 2005
Eric A. Fischer and Kevin J. Coleman, Congressional Research Service
The CRS surveys more than 1,500 local election officials in fifty states regarding their views on voting systems, HAVA, and voting system vendors
From Punchcards to Touchscreens: Some Evidence from Pasco County, Florida on the Effects of Changing Voting Technology (PDF) | APRIL 2006
Michael C. Harron (Dartmouth College) and Jeffrey B. Lewis (University of California, Los Angeles)
Using evidence from Pasco County, the authors find that electronic voting systems diminish voter error rates, but also increase the number of affirmative votes in judicial retention races and therefore may affect voters' incentives in low information races.
Helping Franklin County Vote in 2008: Waiting Lines (PDF) | AUGUST 2008
Theodore Allen, Mikhail Bernshteyn, and Chris Rockwell, Franklin County, Ohio Board of Elections
In an attempt to avoid the up-to-five hour long lines that plagued some Ohio jurisdictions in 2004, the Franklin County Board of Elections has analyzed the underlying issues and made recommendations to improve the process for this November.
Election Day Voter Registration in Nebraska (PDF) | APRIL 2008
R. Michael Alvarez (Caltech) and Jonathan Nagler (NYU), Dēmos
The latest in a series of analyses, this paper examines the potential effects on turnout of implementing Election Day Registration in Nebraska.
Viewpoint: Studying Election Reform | AUGUST 2008
Matthew Corritore and Molly Reynolds, AEI-Brookings Election Reform Project
In this piece, staff from the Election Reform Project review the current state of play in the election reform research field.
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